BACKGROUND Escherichia coli occurs naturally in the human gut; however, certain strains that can cause infections, are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Multidrug-resistant E. coli that produce extended-spectrum beta lactamases (ESBLs), such as the CTX-M enzymes, have emerged within the community setting as an important cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and bloodstream infections may be...

Synergistic activity of Salvia officinalis and Cichorium intybus extracts and commonly used antibiotics, amoxicillin and chloramphenicol, were evaluated. Interactions between plant extracts and antibiotics were tested by checkerboard method and interpreted as FIC index. Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 and clinical isolates Staphyl...

Hospital wastewater contains a complex mixture of bioactive substances and microorganisms that are deleterious to humans aquatic animals. In this study, four antibiotics, namely, ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, cefuroxime, amoxicillin, respectively, from the seven hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, were monitored. The results revealed these is contaminated with at least one antibiotics. addition...

introduction: glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice) root, a member of the pea family has been used since ancient times as both food and medicine. licorice has been used as an antioxidant, antimicrobial and anti inflammatory in researches .extraction of this medical plant is used as the basis of anti-ulcer medicine for treatment of peptic ulcer. patients and methods: in the present study, licorice decoc...

OBJECTIVES To analyse an Italian database of spontaneous reporting of suspected adverse drug reactions in order to compare the safety profile of amoxicillin and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid. METHODS Data were retrieved from the spontaneous reports collected by six Italian regions (the GIF database) from January 1988 to June 2005. Drug utilization data were also available for the two drugs. The...

Using elementary methods, the following results are obtalned:(1) If p is n n-m prime, 0 m n, 0 < b < ap n-m, and p ab, then (m) (-I)P-I(apb (rood pn). 2 A2_4B If r,s are the roots of x Ax-B, where (A,B) and D > 0, if n n u v rn+s n, and k > O, then (II) v =v (rood pn). n r-s n kpn kpn-1 (III) If p is odd and p D, then u (_D) u (rood pn); kp n P kp n-I (IV) u (_1)Bu n) n n-I (rood 2 k2 k2

A subgroup of an amenable group is amenable. The C*-algebra version of this fact is false. This was first proved by M.-D. Choi [9] who proved that the non-nuclear C*-algebra C*(Z2 * Z3) is a subalgebra of the nuclear Cuntz algebra €2. A. Connes provided another example, based on a crossed product construction. More recently J. Spielberg [23] showed that these examples were essentially the same....

Agar dilution MIC testing of amoxicillin, amoxicillin-BRL 42715, amoxicillin-clavulanate, temafloxacin, and clindamycin against 496 beta-lactamase-producing anaerobic gram-negative rods revealed MICs for 90% of the strains tested of 256.0 (amoxicillin), 2.0 (amoxicillin-BRL 42715 and amoxicillin-clavulanate), and 4.0 (temafloxacin and clindamycin) microgram/ml. Amoxicillin, temafloxacin, and cl...